Oct 30, 2019

Fisher Phillips

Prange

Bailey

Labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips added attorneys Nate Bailey and Scott Prange to its Seattle office. Bailey is of counsel and Prange is an associate. Bailey has over 10 years of experience representing companies in a wide range of employment law. He comes from Winterbauer & Diamond, a Seattle practice specializing in labor and employment law. Prange advises companies on all stages of litigation, including unfair labor practices, wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, and occupational health and safety violations. He comes from the Honolulu office of Dentons, an international law firm. Fisher Phillips has more than 400 attorneys in over 30 offices across the U.S.

The Standard

Taylor-Rodriguez

Rita Taylor-Rodriguez returned to Portland-based Standard Insurance Co. (The Standard) as third-party administrator sales director for retirement plan services. Taylor-Rodriguez has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, including a 10-year stint with The Standard as a regional sales director that ended in 2017. Most recently, she was a sales executive with Malcolm Thompson & Associates in Houston. She is based in Magnolia, Texas.

Frazier Healthcare Partners

Frazier Healthcare Partners promoted Ben Magnano to managing partner and Phil Zaorski to principal, and added Christina Miller Reszka as a principal. Magnano joined Frazier in 2006 and became a general partner in 2013. Zaorski joined the company in 2012 and has played key roles with the firm's investments in AppianRx, Comprehensive Pharmacy Services, Northfield Medical and Vein Clinics of America. Prior to that, he was an analyst with RBC Capital Markets. Miller Reszka spent 10 years at Norwest Equity Partners, most recently as a principal. Frazier invests in health care companies. It has offices in Seattle and Menlo Park, California.

American Lending Center

In Seattle, American Lending Center won the I-829 Approval Award from industry association Invest in the USA. American Lending Center is an EB-5 regional center that helps investors navigate the EB-5 investment and immigration program to achieve green card status. It has completed funding for 75 EB-5 projects in 19 states.

Rogue Creamery

Rogue Creamery's Rogue River Blue Cheese was named World's Best Cheese at the 2019 World Cheese Awards in Italy. The cheese was picked by a panel of 260 jurors as the best from a field of 3,800 cheeses from 42 countries. The cave-aged blue cheese is wrapped in Syrah grape leaves that are soaked in pear spirits. Central Point, Oregon-based Rogue Creamery says this is the first time that an American-made cheese has won the top honor.

AHBL

Hein

Ratkus

Gorun

Adams

Ripley

Port

Han

In Tacoma, AHBL hired Scean Ripley as a survey project manager, Emily Adams as a planner, Sergey Gorun as a survey technician, Dan Ratkus as a landscape project manager and Jason Hein and Ashley Han as project engineers. In Seattle, AHBL promoted Brittany Port to planning project manager. Ripley is in the survey department. He has over 30 years of surveying experience and a portfolio of large commercial boundaries and topography, right of way surveys and residential projects. Adams is in the planning department. She holds an undergraduate degree from Eastern Washington University and a master's in city and regional planning from Clemson University. She has experience in community planning and development in Eastern and Western Washington, including in Spokane, Olympia and surrounding communities.

Gorun is in the survey department. He has an associate degree in applied science in land surveying from Renton Technical College and four years of experience doing surveys in the region. Ratkus is in the landscape architecture department. He has a bachelor of landscape architecture degree from Washington State University and experience in estimating for a commercial landscape contractor, residential landscape design and private landscape design emphasizing community-based projects. Hein is in the civil engineering department. The Central Washington University graduate has designed commercial, industrial, multifamily and parks projects. Han is in the civil department and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Washington. Her experience includes a mechanical engineering internship at Tesla and research with the Civil & Environmental Engineering department at UW.

Port has been with AHBL for five years, and has experience in current and long-range planning projects. She has worked on policy planning projects, comprehensive plan updates, shoreline master programs, and zoning code updates for public sector clients in Washington and California. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in city and regional planning from Ohio State University.

NAC Architecture

Santora

Lightning

Larson

In Spokane, NAC Architecture hired Evan Larson as a desktop support specialist, Tasha Lightning as director of research and experience development and Kevin Santora as an electrical designer. Larson provides information technology assistance to employees. Previously, he had his own IT consulting business in Spokane. Lightning leads the firm's Research and Experience Development, whose research helps NAC design buildings that function better for the people who use them. Lightning has bachelor's degrees in psychology and criminal justice from Gonzaga University and a master's in experimental psychology from Central Washington University, where she worked for the Office of Undergraduate Research. Santora has an associate degree in drafting and design from Linn-Benton Community College and is working on the Glover Middle School replacement in Spokane. He was with EVCO Sound & Electronics in Spokane. NAC provides planning, design, engineering and capital facilities consulting services.

HKP Architects

Baldwin

Christine Baldwin earned a Washington architecture license and was promoted to project architect at HKP Architects, a Mount Vernon-based architectural design firm. She was hired in 2014, and her work has included Housing Hope's Twin Lakes Landing, Orcas Island Public Library expansion and the Western Washington University Consolidated Academic Support Services Facility. She has a bachelor of architecture degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.